Sketch Of The Sikhs

Malcolm,lieutenant Colonel · 1812 · Public domain (published pre-1930) · archive.org ↗

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2SKETCH or THE SIKHS

3inculcated the doclnne of the equality ot

4the relation of all created beings to their

5Creator Ndnac endeavoured, vnthah the

6power of his own genius, aided by such

7authonlies, to impress both Hindfis anc

8Muhammedans ivith a 3o\e of toleration

9and an abhorrence of war, and his life was

10as peaceable as his doctnne He appears,

11indeed, to have adopted, from the hour in

12vvluch lie abandoned Ins uorldl^ occu-*

13palions to tint of his death, the habiU

14practised by that crowd of holy mendicants,

15Sanydsis and Fakirs, with whom India

16swarms He conformed to their customs,

17and his extraordinary austenties* are a

18constant theme of praise with his followers

19His works are all in praise of God , but he

20* N^tiac was celebrated for the manoer in which he

21performed Tapasa, or austere derottoo, which requues

22the mind to he so totally absorbed m the Divinity, as

23to be abstracted ironz eveiy worldly thought, and this

24Jbr as long a period as homan strength is capable ot

25sustaining